NEW YORK, NY.- Throckmorton Fine Art is presenting Flor Garduño, Paths of Life from October 3, 2024, through January 22, 2025. The exhibition features forty-five black-and-white photographs by the renowned artist Flor Garduño, celebrated for deeply empathetic visual storytelling that has made a significant impact on photography in her native Mexico and beyond.
The exhibition takes its name from Garduño’s latest book, which received the 2024 Premio A. García Cubas for Best Art Book, awarded by Mexico’s National Institute for Anthropology and History (INAH). Paths of Life offers a retrospective of Garduño’s forty-five-year career, showcasing a selection of both recent and previously unpublished images focusing on architecture and landscape to figure studies, still life, and cultural iconography. This year, Garduño was honored with a major exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, perhaps the pinnacle recognition for a Mexican artist.
“Garduño is one of the most imaginative photographers of our time,” said Spencer Throckmorton, the principal of Throckmorton Fine Art, who has known Garduño for forty years and represented her in New York for three decades. “Her compositions are magical and captivating. While her photographs may be sparse, they exude elegance and a dreamlike quality that invites contemplation.” Mexican critic Francisco Reyes aptly describes her work as “the photography of amazement,” ensuring that her photographs provoke a second look and deep reflection.
Flor Garduño
Born in Mexico City in 1957, Flor Garduño's upbringing outside the city on a farm with a vast family zoo sparked her imagination and curiosity about myths.
She studied visual arts at the San Carlos Academy of the Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where one of her teachers was the Hungarian photographer, Kati Horn. In 1979, she began working as an assistant to Latin America’s greatest photographer, Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Garduño’s subsequent work for the Mexican Secretary of Public Education took her to remote rural areas of Mexico to find suitable material for bilingual literacy books. This work was formative, giving Garduño the opportunity to learn about her country and its many Indigenous peoples, and to develop her own style. Garduño has continued to travel, finding sources of inspiration for her photography in countries as diverse as Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, Switzerland, and Poland.
Garduño has published numerous collections since her first, Magic of the Eternal Game, in 1985. Other notable works include Witness of Time, Inner Light, and Trilogy. Her photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Garduño’s photographs are held in the permanent collections of prominent museums and libraries, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Museo del Banco de la República, Bogotá; Museum of Photography, Antwerp; Bibliothèque nacional de France, Paris; and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Flor Garduño resides in Mexico City.
Throckmorton Fine Art
Spencer Throckmorton founded Throckmorton Fine Art in 1980 and maintains a high-profile gallery in New York City’s East 57th Street art district. Throckmorton is unique in its approach to dealing in several categories and for supporting a vigorous exhibition and publishing program for each specialty. He has become one of the foremost sources for important Latin American contemporary and vintage photography, as well as for pre-Columbian artworks, and Chinese jade and antiquities.
Throckmorton Fine Art has participated in the most important art fairs including the annual Winter Show, where it has been a featured exhibitor for the last 30 years, and an exhibitor at The Photography Show presented by AIPAD for more than 20 years. Throckmorton has also been a member of ATADA (The Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association, Inc.) and the International Association for Ancient Asian and Tribal Art (formerly NADAOPA).
